Improvement in whips



D. C. HULL.

WHIPS.

lPammwa may 2,1876.

Wi kr-IE EEES.

rfzfm N,PE\' ERS, FMDTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C

' UNITED i STATES PATENT QEEICE.

DAVID C. HULL, OF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND HENRY J. BUSH, OF SAME PLACE.`

IMPROVEMENT IN wHiPs.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,958, dated May 2, 1876 application filed April 1o, 1876. f

T o all whom it may cou-ecru E@ it known aan I, DAVE) o. HULL, of:

its object to provide a Whip with a butt and 'errule that cannot be Abroken or indented by careless handling, as is ofteuthe case with Whipsot' ordinary construction, provided with horn, bone, ivory, or metallic butts or ferrules; and the invention consists ina Whip provided with an india-rubber cap-like flanged butt, and with a ferrule to assist in holding the butt inposition.

Figure 1 represents part of a Whip-handle provided with my invention, and Fig, 2 is a section through the same.

The Whip-stock a is covered,l in any usual Way, With a braided or woven covering, and its end is covered with an india-rubber butt, c, composed of a cap or end'ferrule, d, and a bottom piece, provided With a ange, e, this butt embracing, protecting, and finishing the end ofthe stock, and when the whip is dropped or thrown down, as often happens, the butt will not be indented or broken, as would be the case with an ordinary metallic, horn, or ivory butt.

These butts are molded in any suitable Way, and ornamented or left plain.

After the butt is placed on the handle, and caused to adhere thereto by any suitable cement, the ferrule e is placed over the part d, and down against the iiange e, and serves -as an additional holding means for the butt, as Well as an ornament for the end of the whiphandle;

This ferrule will preferably be made ot'findia rubber, molded as a short tube, 'and externally Qrnamented when-molded, so as to represent either the usual braided ferrule, or to represent any other desired design.

Instead ot' the india-rubber ferrule, I may employ the usual braided ferrule over the caplike end 0l ot' the butt.

The ferrule at f may bel either of molded rubber or braided.

I claim- As an improved article of manufacture, a'

whip provided with a molded india-rubber butt and a ferrule, to embrace and retain the butt on the end ot' the Whip, all combined as shown and described. A

1n testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the'presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

A. L. BUSH, C. A. WEEAToN. 

